Hi,
We're at the early stage of planning a Shibboleth deployment. I've
just found the "Shibboleth - Athens integration guide" at
http://www.athensams.net/upload/athens/pdf/shib-athens-integration1.0.pdf
which is very helpful. Could you folks just confirm that I've got this
correct:
If I want to deploy Shibboleth initially just to replace our Athens DA
access to resources, all (!) I have to do is to
deploy an IDP,
set up our eduPerson attributes
join the UK Federation
register to use the gateway
complete the testing as specified in the above doc
and.....
what is then required to changeover from using Athens DA to Shib, is it
just Eduserve swapping the URL they used to redirect people to to that
of the IDP? (Sorry if this is a dumb question I have previously had
little involvement in this end of things).
I was greatly encouraged in "section 2. Preparation" which says:
"With appropriate planning and preparation, it is possible to configure
a Shibboleth identity
provider (IdP) to access the Athens gateway in just a few days."
:-)
Cheers
Andy Swiffin
Dundee University
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